$7.00 U.S. InsIde: Developing User Interface Standards INTERNATIONAL Plus! Who Owns the ® Data? SSpecpecTHE MULTIVALUE TEttCHNOLOGYrr umMumAGAZINE I MAR/APR 2011 Character Encoding Getting Ready for the World Stage intl-spectrum.com Advanced 6 Spec_Layout 1 2/14/11 2:22 PM Page 1 Advanced database technology for breakthrough applications This makes applications fly. Embed our post-relational database if you Caché eliminates the need for object-relational want your next application to have breakthrough mapping. Which can reduce your development features, run withC abclahzéing speed, be massively cycle by as much as 40%. scalable and require mi®nimal administration. Caché is available for all major platforms – InterSystems has advanced object and it supports MultiValue development. Caché is technology that makes it easier to build applica- deployed on more than 100,000 systems world- tions with XML, Web services, AJAX, Java, and .NET. wide, ranging from two to over 50,000 users. And Caché can run SQL up to 5 times faster than For over 30 years, we’ve provided advanced relational databases. ™ software technologies for breakthrough With its unique Unified Data Architecture , applications. Visit us at the International Spectrum Conference, April 4-7, 2011, West Palm Beach, Florida. InterSystems.com/Advanced6WW Download a free, fully functio©n 20a11l I,n tnerSoys-tetmism Corpeor-altiomn. Alil rtig hctso repseryve do. Inft eCrSyastecmhs Céach, éo is ra r ergiesteqredu treadsemta rikt o f oIntnerS yDsteVmsD Cor,p oaratti on. 2-11 Adv6Spec INTERNATIONAL ® SSpecpecTHE MULTIVALUE tt TErrCHNOLOGYumum MAGAZINE FEATURES I MARCH/APRIL 2011 Character Encoding It’s a small world and getting smaller, Business Tech: User Ownership of Data Gone are the days especially6 thanks to the Internet and 10 when the Data Processing department was both keeper and defender web-enabled applications. Whether of the data and parceled it out to users on green bar reports where they due to a business expanding into could look but not touch. Today’s users insist that data be presented to international markets or acquisitions by, them in such a manner that they can manipulate it, summarize it, use it, or partnering with, foreign companies, and even lose it. This provides the modern IT department with a new set many applications are finding a need of challenges. BY CHARLES BAROUCH to be multilingual, not just MultiValue. Sending Email from Your MultiValue Programs — Part 2: So how do you represent the different 12 Using IIS Part 1 of this series of articles showed you how to construct non-English characters? BY BRIAN an e-mail, including the necessary items in the header and body. So LEACH now you have it, what do you do with it? There are a variety of ways to actually send e-mail. We start by introducing you to SMTP using Microsoft’s Internet Information Server. BY NATHAN RECTOR MultiValue and QuickBooks, Part 2: Exporting to 14 MultiValue Many MultiValue accounting packages lack the GUI interface modern users demand or other features that are considered to be mandatory by anyone who has used a modern accounting application. One option is to replace it with an off-the-shelf commodity accounting package and share data between it and the MultiValue DEPARTMENTS system running the core business functions. Part 1 dealt with getting data from MultiValue to QB. Now we go in the other direction. BY MARK JOHNSON From the Inside page 4 First Steps to Securing Your Information in the Internet From the Press Room page 16 20 Age While computer and data security is a large and complex subject, Clif Notes page 31 it is disconcerting how many MultiValue systems do not even take the most fundamental precautions to protect user data from unauthorized access. Just a couple of straightforward techniques can prevent that kid on the coffee shop WiFi from stealing your access codes and walking through your system at will. BY BRYAN SHUMSKY, REVELATION SOFTWARE User Interface Design: Defacto Standards and Unicorns 24 The green screen may be dead, but graphical user interfaces bring with them their own set of issues. Because of their flexibility, a set of GUI- International Spectrum and MultiValue based programs in an application written by different programmers, are registered trademarks of International each with their own opinion and style, can be even more difficult to Spectrum, Inc. All other registered understand, use, and navigate than the old green screens. But do user trademarks are the property interface standards appear magically? BY SUSAN JOSLYN of the respective trademark holders. INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM MARCH/APRIL 2011 u 3 INTERNATIONAL From the Inside B Y N A T H A N R E C T O R SpectrumMARCH/APRIL 2011 NATHAN RECTOR President CLIFTON OLIVER Editor Welcome to the International Spectrum 2011 Conference! TRACEY RECTOR Layout For those who are here in Florida, Welcome, Enjoy… I’m sure we will be talking throughout the conference. For those that were unable to make it, don’t feel left out. Spectrum 2011 has two events: Live and Virtual. Our Live event is full of education and networking, I know many of you wanted to join us but were unable to join us due to budget constraints. Learn more about the MultiValue Symbol and see This is where the Virtual conference comes in. April 12–14 are the dates what MulitValue Technologies and MultiValue for the Virtual part of our conference. Now, the question you likely have Communities exist to help you support and manage is — what is the differences? your business and systems. To find out more visit http://www.intl-spectrum.com Well, it’s not different but an extension of the Live conference. Trying to find all the solutions available to you can sometimes be hard and time MISSION STATEMENT International Spectrum consuming, but the Live and Virtual conference allow you to see all the magazine’s editorial mission is to be the premier independent source of useful information for users, developers, and resellers products and services in one place. of MultiValue database management systems, open systems business database solutions, and related hardware, software, The Virtual Conference provides you access to our sponsors to either initi- and peripherals. Published bimonthly, International Spectrum ate new conversations, or continue ones that you have started at another provides comprehensive coverage of the products, companies, and trends that shape the MultiValue marketplace as well as the time. Each of our sponsors has access to our Instant Message servers to computer industry at large — helping its readers get the most schedule available times when they will be free to talk with you. Some of out of their business computer systems. the sponsors may be providing you the ability to talk with different people within the company as well. In addition to the Instant Message chats, you can access and download On-Demand Videos provided by the exhibitors. These give you even more information about vendor products and solutions. MV .ENTERPRISE Mentor Pro Some, though not all, of the Live conference sessions will also be available MO/E Native PICK On-Demand during that time as well. The On-Demand session will give you the basics you may need or want to get started with a solution to PC Verse PICK OA whatever problem you are looking to address. tm Power95 For those of you here at the Live conference, you get access to the Virtual content as well as part of your attendance to the Live Conference. Also R91 REALITY AP/PRO keep a look out around the conference for the QR code hunt. You may win something. MULTI Verse RPL MV •BASE -NATHAN RECTOR International Spectrum is published six (6) times per year at the subscription price of $40.00 U.S. in the U.S.A.; $45.00 U.S. President, International Spectrum in Canada and Mexico; $50.00 U.S. for other countries. Single copy rates are $7.00 U.S. in the U.S.A. and Canada, and $9.00 [email protected] U.S. in all other countries. International Spectrum is published by International Specturm, Inc., 8956 Fox Drive #102, Thornton, CO 80260; Tel: 720/259-1356; Fax: 603/250-0664 E-Mail: request@ intl-spectrum.com. Copyright 2011 International Spectrum, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part, without written permission, is prohibited. PRINTED IN USA NEWS RELEASES/UNSOLICITED ARTICLES International Spectrum is eager to print your submissions of up-to- the-minute news and feature stories complementary to the MultiValue marketplace. Black and white or color photographs and diagrams are welcome. Although there is no guarantee a submitted article will be published, every article will be con- sidered. Please send your press releases, articles, and queries to: [email protected]. International Spectrum retains all reprint rights. twitter.com/intlspectrum intl-spectrum.com/facebook International Spectrum is a registered trademark and MultiValue is a trademark of International Spectrum, Inc. All other registered 4 u INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM MARCH/APRIL 2011 trademarks and trademarks are the property of the respective trademark holders. Application Developers just got a brand new bag. And we continue to fill it with the tools you’ll Source Code Management allows developers need to get the job done; this time with SQL to save a unique copy of every program Connector and Source Code Management. compiled, as it is compiled, and allows for SQL Connector provides the ability to easily easy versioning of those compiled programs. connect OpenInsight to a SQL database. With Source code can be grouped in modules and this connector, SQL tables are now seen as the different versions of source code can be native tables to all components of OpenInsight compared to evaluate differences.